Help Support Voting Rights!

There is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than our constitutional right to vote. That’s why the American Humanist Association is proud to support the recent reintroduction of the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA) of 2017, which would fully restore and modernize the original Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.

One of the VRA’s core protections is its preclearance system, which previously required states with a documented history of discrimination to allow the federal government to review changes to voting laws and practices before they were implemented. This provision was struck down in 2013 by the Supreme Court in Shelby v. Holder, where the court held that while preclearance is constitutional; it is unconstitutional to apply it to states based on the 1965 formula.